Resorption of teeth in cats seems to be common. It can affect 60% of cats who are over five years of age.

The tooth, or teeth, is gradually destroyed.

Vets will tell you there is no simple answer. 

If this happened in Nature, cats would live very short lives and die of starvation. The fact that it doesn’t leads to the answer.

There’s a common saying that ‘if you don’t use it, you lose it’.

In this situation, the food the cats are commonly fed give you the answer.

Wild cats consume whole, raw prey. This consists of fresh muscle meat, organs and bones. All raw, All fresh. The meat is torn off the bone and swallowed whole as cats don’t have a chewing action. Their jaws only go up and down. There is no sideways action as this is unnecessary.

The action of of the mouth that looks like chewing is pushing the food towards the throat to swallow.

It’s a different matter when it comes to the raw bones. These can’t be swallowed whole. They need to be processed into smaller pieces.

The beautiful spiky teeth that cats are equipped with are the perfect processor for raw bones. The up and down crunching action doesn’t just process the bones. The action keeps the teeth sparkling clean, preventing any tartar build up.

Compare this diet with the common diet cats are fed today - mushy canned food and dangerous kibble.

One could reasonably expect the hard dry food cats are so commonly fed today, to have a beneficial action on the teeth. The statistics tell a different story. Why is this?

Meat needs calcium to digest. But not any old calcium. It needs to be the one that the natural meat eaters consume - raw bones.

Bones have the perfect combination of the macro minerals, trace elements and other nutrients that allow the meat to be fully digested and utilised.

How wise Nature is, to put them together.

Sadly, the supplements found in commercial cat food is synthetic for the most part. Synthetic supplements are very often made from petro-chemicals.

It’s clever what the food chemists can achieve. It’s tragic what they do to health.

The good raw brands of cat food do add crushed bones, which is perfect for the digestion of the meat. But it lacks the ability to clean the teeth.

The now common idea of cleaning your cats teeth becomes obsolete when you feed them small, raw poultry bones to crunch on. The bones do all the work.

The answers to problems are usually simple. People like to complicate things, especially where money is involved.

Although the solution to the resorption of teeth in cats is simple, persuading your cat to eat raw food and especially bones, is not always without its challenges. Junkie, kibble-fed cats can be stubborn.

However, there is a way to convince them. It takes time, but time well spent.